Rest for sad-irons.



E. IVI. SKINNER.

REST FOR SAD IHONS.

APPLICATION FILED sEPT.16. m4.

1,156,104. Patented oet. 12, 1915.

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ELLA ivi. SKIN-NER, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

,REST FOR SAD-IRONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented 0ct. 12, 1915.

Application filed September 16, 1914. Serial No. 861,984.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLA M. SKINNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Rests for Sad-Irons, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

It is the general practice to cover ironing boards with cloth whose life is ordinarily limited by the scorching action of sad irons which are set down directly on the ironing board when there is no suitable rest within convenient reach or if the rest be lost or mislaid. It is of course troublesome and annoying to have the covering for the iron; ing board scorched or burned but,as' far as I know, there has heretofore been no satisfactory safeguard, because during the comparatively long intervals of idleness through which an ironing board passes between successive ironings, the danger of misplacing or losing the rest for the sad iron is great; and, if eXtreme care is used to protect the cover of the ironing board, much time may be lost in locating the rest for the sad irons.

The object of my invention is to produce a simple and novel rest for sad irons which may be slipped upon an ironing board at any desired point thereon and remain a iX- ture thereon, not onlv when the ironing board is in use but also when it is put away; but which may be detached quickly and conveniently to change its position from .one point to another, if desired, or foil the purpose of changing the covering on the board.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is characterized will hereinafter bc pointed out with particularity in the claims; but, for a full understanding of my invention and of its object and advantages, reference may be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a side view of a rest arranged in accordance with a preferred 4form of my invention, in position on an ironing' board, shown in section; Fig. 2 is a to-p plan view of the rest and a fragment of the ironing voerd: and Fig. 3 is a section taken at right angles Ato the planes of Figs. l and 2 through the body of the rest and the ironing board, looking toward the right.

In its preferred form my invention consists of a simple piece of comparatively heavy wire bent into parallel side members, l, of about the length of an ordinary sad iron, the side members being connected together at one end by a yoke comprising short vertical legs, 2, and a cross piece, 3; each side member having at its opposite end a vertical leg, 4, of the same height as the other legs and there being elongated vertical hooks or clamps, 5, one extending from the lower end of each of the legs 4; each of the members l, the corresponding legs 2 and 4, and the corresponding hook or jaw, 5, lying in the same vertical plane. The two side members or bars, 1, are connected together by any suitable means which will form between them a platform on which the sad irons may rest. In the arrangement shown, I have provided a series of cross wires, 6, each bent at its ends around the `two side wires as indicated at 7. In order to hold the cross wires against slipping lengthwise ofV the side members, two side wires are preferably crimped, as shown, so as to provide seats which will hold the bends, 7, against moving lengthwise of the side wires. I also prefer so to shape the bends or fastcnings -7 at the ends of the cross wires that the cross wires lie in a plane below the highest points on the bends and preferably below the side wires; this arrangement providing retaining walls or flanges along the sides of the platform or support and preventing an iron resting thereon from slipping off sidewise.

The rest is applied to an ironing board by simply slipping the two hooks or jaws over one edge of the board at the point where the rest is desired. The main frame, made of the wire of which the hooks or jaws are formed, is preferably made of spring wire, so that the hooks or jaws may be sprung upon the board and hold the rest thereon with a firm grip. The free arms of the hooks or jaws are made substantially as long as the arms which are fixed to the legs of the rest and, in the vicinity of the yoke or bend between the two arms, each jaw is made of a depth considerably greater than the thickness of the ordinary ironing board; whereby the ,mouth of each hook or jaw may be contracted initially to any desired extent and, when the hooks or jaws are slipped upon an ironing board oi any usual thickness, such as indicated at 8, the mouths thereof will open far enough to admit the board, gripping the board at this point, while the rest is steadied through the simple engagement of the extreme edge of the ironing board with the hooks or jaws in the vicinity oi the yokes or bends. By properly proportioning the parts, a slight tension may be placed on the entire iframe, when the device is slipped upon a board, so as to press the cross bar, 3, tightly against the board.

My improved rest may be slipped upon a board or removed instantly and Without requiring special skill or the use of tools of any kind. After the device has been applied to a board, the board may be moved about and set away without disturbing the rest, so that when the board is to be used again 'the rest will be in place and the usci' is never required to choose between the alternatives of limiting a lost or misplaced rest or marring or destroying the covering of the ironing board by allowing hot irons to rest directly upon it. At the same time, my device is so simple as to be no more eX- pensive than the ordinary cheap rest, the objections to which it is the purpose of my invention to overcome.

TWhile have illustrated and described with particularity only a single preferred form of my invention, l do not desire to be limited to the exact structural details thus illustrated and described; but intend to cover all forms and arrangements which come within the terms employed in the denitions of my invention constituting the appended claims.

I claim:

l. A rest for sad irons made up of a piece of springy wire having its intermediate portion bent into a 4'rame comprising two parallel side bars connected together at one end by a depending U-shaped Jfoot and each having a downwardly-projecting leg at its other end, the free ends of the aforesaid wire beginning at the lower ends of said legs being bent into hook-like spring jaws arranged in separated vertical planes, and a series of cross wires extending between and connected at their ends to said side bars.

2. A rest for sad irons made up of a piece of springy wire having its intermediate portion bent into a frame comprising two parallel side bars connected together at one end by a depending U-shaped foot and each having a downwardly-projecting leg at its other end, the free ends of the aforesaid wire beginning at the lower ends of said legs being bent into hook-like spring jaws arranged in separated vertical planes, and a series of cross wiresextending between and connected at their ends to said side bars, the cross wires being higher at points where they engage with the side bars than at points between the side bars.

n testimony whereof, I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ELLA M. SKINNER.

Vl'f'itnesses 2 MAE PETERS, WM. F. FREUDENRniroi-i.

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